Senate Statistical Summary 4/2017


No. 4—27 to 31 March

General
  27 to 31 March 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 4 15
Average length of a sitting day 14 hrs 3 mins 11 hrs 54 mins
Longest sitting day 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 10 hrs 21 mins
(29 March)		 9 hrs 10 mins
(9 February)
Hours of sitting 56 hrs 14 mins 178 hrs 25 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  27 to 31 March 2017 to date
government business 32 hrs 0 mins 83 hrs 11 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 10 hrs 34 mins
1 hrs 53 mins		 48 hrs 42 mins
11 hrs 34 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 15 mins 15 hrs 55 mins
urgency/MPI 3 hrs 18 mins 11 hrs 19 mins
business of the Senate 1 hrs 10 mins 2 hrs 32 mins
other 0 hrs 31 mins 2 hrs 09 mins
adjournment debate 4 hrs 26 mins 14 hrs 37 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  27 to 31 March 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 18* 198**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 147
4 sitting days		 537
15 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 36.8 35.8
Notices of motion given 41 176
Petitions presented 0 0
Signatories to petitions 0 0
Divisions 40 121

*  Questions placed on notice from 24 to 31 March 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 31 March 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  27 to 31 March 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 0
2		 4
9
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 12 47
Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills 0 0
Private senators' bills restored to the Notice Paper 0 1
Passed in the Senate 17 39
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 8 22
Bills referred to committees 7 22

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - Gerneral business 30%, Government business 51%, Questions 10%, Urgent/MPI 7%, Other business 1%, Business of the Senate 1%

27 to 31 March 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate 27 to 31 March - Gerneral business 21%, Government business 62%, Questions 8%, Urgent/MPI 6%, Other business 1%, Business of the Senate 2%

Note: These figures do not include time spent on adjournment debates.